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    loslosbaby: "Armstrong landed that old thing on a wing and a prayer..." Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle, and spoke the first words heard from the moon too! "Contact ... more »
    bosskev: Here's how you--as an astronaut--would experience the mission...More realistically, here's how I--as a lazy-assed civilian--would experience the missi... more »
    fastm3driver: Personally we should quadruple NASA's budget. They are the most high tech "company" on almost every level. They create high tech jobs and very high te... more »
    Aturayd: I bet $10,000 the next person on the moon will either be black or female or both. more »
    Pwnerjam3.0: this new mission is asinine more »
    Takamofo: Wait... Wasn't Space Bat was NASA's last shot at the moon? more »
    Nick: You hear the clunk of mating adapters Stop, you're making me blush. Great post, but you forgot about that part of little Timmy, the billionaire's son,... more »
    Heliophage: That's if we go back. Didn't President Obama propose that we cut this excursion? more »
    Kaili Zhang: Question - why is it taking us so long to get to the Moon again when it took only 6 years back in the 60's? The technology we have is so much more adv... more »
    Robert Davis: I appreciate everything that you guys do. but Wat is all this space crap. I am not in space. I have never been to space. I will never be going to spac... more »
  • #space

    From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

    May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There's plenty of laboring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here's how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission: More »
  • #nasa

    NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket

    A handful of rogue NASA engineers have gone underground and spent their spare time from the Constellation program working on a rocket dubbed "Jupiter"—an alternative that they believe will be "safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle." Jupiter is being developed with the help of a team that includes retired NASA engineers and enthusiasts who are working (mostly) anonymously. More »